Type bars or slugs.



M. H. WHITTAKER &: O. HOLLIWELL. TYPE BARS OB SLUGS. APPLICATION FILED$1131.27, 1913.

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TYPE BARS 0R SLUGS.

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Letters Patent. pge w gii 11 1 j nomination filed September 2'7, r5513.fierlal He.'792,078.

i'lnirranne and thiamine lioiizawnnii, sul

v jects of the King of the United Kingdom of 5 Great l I speeti eiy, athlorton li'ouse. llornhy Road, 1h Old liraiiord, hianrhester, in thecounty of *Laneasrer, England, and Linotype and Maaod lreland, andresiding, ro-

eliineralvorloi, lh'oadiiealh, in the county of Chester, England, haveinvented new and useful Lnproveh ents in 'lype liars or Slugs,

of which the following is a sperification.

'lhis imientioh relates to typographiral line-rustingniaehines. and tothe devices 1L known, and hereinafter referred to, as-

slugzs east therein, whirli near on one edge a line of printingrharzui-ters, and. it has for its ohjert to provide means forrenderingthe said slugs more serviceable for a certain (lass of: workthanthey have hereto.-

fult, been, as ordinarily eonstrueted. The particular class of workalzove'referred to, isthe printing of Christ-alas and New Years rardsand other devices or arti- 'eles having printed thereon, greetings orannouiu-ements, hereinafter termed texts and also the senders name and,if desirable. the address also. Frequently these derives are printed insmall batches of say, a few '30 dozen each and it otten happens thatorders'are rereived from diii'erent persons requiring the same, text butwith different senders names. For this reason the ohm actors forprinting the text are generally stereotyped or otherwise constructed soas" to render them suitable for being permanently locked up in theehase,While the type for printing: the senders name and ad dress, set upin the chase either in separable 40 type or in east slugs, areperiodically hanged to give eiiert to the changes in sueh names andaddresses. l a, ll illioulty has heretofore been experienced in using);slugs for printing the senders name heeause that name has sometimesnecessilnled a slug of greater iueasure than oouid he a 'rommodaiedbetween the side sticks or furniture ofthe obese, and the said namesometimes occupies a length of the slug ep- 'H'eriahIy short of its-fullmeasure which latter was sufiieient to extend from one to the other sideof the chase, the diflirulty in eonnection with the last-named derirearising out of the fact, that, unless the name were 5 exaetly central onthe slug}: it rouhl not he centralized relatii'ely to the text. according to the Present invention, these difiieul- Y ties areentirelyovereome by; forming the s aforesaid slugs so that theedgesthereef which hear the printingeha ructersglcan ex;

tend over the side sticks on furniture of the,

el ase and so that the said slugs ean he ed JllStLl' lon nmdmallywithinthe chase.

The invention will he best understood hy," I

reference to the ac which i i v Figure 1 is an isometrieal view of asing the'prlnting'matter on which isot shorter ineasure than thedistance between the two sides of the chase; Fig, 2 is an .isouietriealperspective view of a mold capable of proof, render it desirahle to helongitndinally adjusted in either direction.

The essence of the present invention may he said to reside in theformation of the name slugs 1 with their upper orprinting edges 2,overhanging the feet of the said rings either at one end, as shown inFig. 1,

or at both ends, as shown in Fig. i, so

asto re'ndei them capable of extending over the adjneent furniture asshown in Fig. 3, or even over the side sticks 4 of the chase.

The slugs from their feet to the printing "faeeare of the usual typeheight exrepting at the m erl'ianging ends which are-of such heightas toadmit of them extending over (mnveniently "without eontaeting with) theaforesaid furniture or side Si'l0l(.

As indicated in Fig. 3. a slugsuch as that cempanying drawings in, I

.dueing slugs such as shown in Fig. 1 il ig. 3

indicated in Fig. 1, can he locked u .in the chase 5 by the usualfurniture 3, si 0 sticksi and quoins 6 along with a stereotype plate 7and other slugs 8. 8, hearing the sen-dens address, the said furniturebeing of the usual hei ht so that the overhanging end or ends 0? theslug 1 can extend over it.

In the example. illustrated in Figs. 1, 3 and 4;, in which the sendersnames are of very short measure, th se names are, in the m general, ofthe construction ordinarilyof the slug, izz-ethat end where no'ovcrhangispresent, and when this slug is set up in the chase 5, it can readilybe adjusted '5 to, centralize the printing matter thereon relatively tothat appearing on the stereoty e plate 7, as shown in Fig. 3.

' en the senders name is of approximately the same measure as, or ofgreater measure than, that of the text on the stereotype plate 7,then'it might be convenient to have the slug l provided, as shown inFig. 5, with-an overhang at each ofits ends, so that it could beadjusted in either direction with one or both of those overhangsextendinig over one or both of the respectively a jacent furnitui'es inthe chase 5.

For castin a slug such. as that represented in Fig. 1, t e mold wouldbeconstructed preferably as shown in Fig. 2; this mold is,

employed in, the casting machine known commerciallyunder the trade markLinotype, the only difference being that which exists one-of the endliners. This mold comprises the ordmaryibody 9, the ordinary ta it andtwoen'd liners 11, 12 all rigidly secured together, the liner-'11 beingrecessed 'iasat 13 for the casting therein of the over- "so ban 114,-Fig. 1, whilethe other liner 12 is "fof't e ordinary construction.

For-,the casting ofslugs such as that shown in Fi 5, both of whose endsoverhang, the vrlin 12 as well as the liner 1]. would be re- I ceased inthe same manner as that shown in connection livith the liner 11 in Fi 2.;4;I, t:;is"-tn be understood that, so ar 'a s the "present invention isconcerned, it is immaterial whether the charactersv for printing to thetext on a stereotype plate as shown ntense in Fig. 3, a series of sin oron separable type, the special aim of t e invention being to providesin? of such construction as admits of them sing readily adm'sted tosecure centralization of the printing characters thereon relatively tothe text.

Having described our invention we declare that what we claim-and desireto se- 4 cure by Letters Patent is 1. A printing form comprisingprinting slugs, one of said slugs being at least of the same measure asthat of the others and receased at its end'below its printing surface,and the said recess being of such form and size as'to permit thelongitudinal adjustment of the printing slug in the form.

2. A printing form comprising printing slugs, one of said slugs being atleast of the same measure as that of the others and recessed at bothends below its printin surface, and the said recemes being 0 such formand size as to permit the longitudinal adjustment of the printing slugin opposite directions in the form.

rn'rratw amar WHI'ITAKER. cluatas aotnwatt.

- Witnesses:

Tnomns Boon, t'iornm Rosanna NUTI'ALL.

